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A.J. Felix, in his own words (y-dialect)
Elder A.J. Felix of Sturgeon Lake, Saskatchewan. Still image from Darryl Chamakese’s September 2018 video. Sharing the thoughts of Elders in their own words is always an honour, particularly when they...
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Tommy Bird and his Team – thanks to Simon Bird and #CreeSimonSays
Tommy Bird’s FaceBook profile photo, January 2020 Tommy Bird, kitakahkahpicikân! (You have a good team!) January is prime dog racing season, and this amazing video is the closest I may ever come to...
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nimiyoskâkon ninehiyâwiwin – My Cree Nurtures Me : Dorothy Thunder (y-dialect)
Dorothy Thunder êkwa okâwîpan (her late mother), Florida Thunder Thanks to Dorothy Thunder (Professor of Cree at University of Alberta and longtime friend and language warrior) for sharing this poem...
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mitoni apisci-ācimowinis : A really really short story from Darryl Chamakese...
https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=19593&picture=lighted-match Darryl Chamakese first shared this little story on FaceBook on March 30th, 2012, explaining it was one his...
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A joking meme for Groundhog Day (Solomon Ratt: th-dialect)
http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Groundhog.m4a “You ain’t nothin’ but a groundhog, lyin’ all the time; If you see your shadow, you ain’t no friend of mine!” (to Sol: “Thank you,...
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Airplane Vocabulary (Solomon Ratt y-dialect)
AirCreeBec Dash8 http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/BonVoyage.m4a miyo-pimâciho : ᒥᔪ ᐱᒫᒋᐦᐅ! (or miyo-pimohtêho : ᒥᔪ ᐱᒧᐦᑌᐦᐅ!) Bon voyage: Have a good trip: Travel well! Here’s some...
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Reclaiming our Territory, Word by Word: Pat Ningewance
Photo: Anna Parenteau It was a great to join the celebration as Patricia Ningewance launched her newest book today in Winnipeg (and sold out all the copies they had on hand!) Pat’s work with Ojibwe...
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Standing with Wet’suwet’en
http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Wetsuweten.m4a With thanks to Keisha Erwin for creating this image in Cree solidarity, and Sol for original translation and audio.
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Reconciliation: Solomon Ratt (audio)
http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Reconciliation.m4a ka-mînosihtâhk miyo-wícêhtowin isi: mâka kâkikê kitohâskwatikawinaw. ᑲ ᒦᓄᓯᐦᑖᕽ ᒥᔪ-wíᒉᐦᑐᐏᐣ ᐃᓯ: ᒫᑲ ᑳᑭᑫ ᑭᑐᐦᐋᐢᑿᑎᑲᐏᓇᐤ᙮ Reconciliation...
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Look who’s watching: Hockey in Cree
nikotwâsik tipahikan ka-mâcipayik anôhc. Seven o’clock it starts today. Join Darryl Chamakese and his son “oskâpêwis” in cheering the resilience and resurgence of Cree as a 21st-century language as...
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I Love to Read Month: Westgrove School, Winnipeg
Prev 1of4 Next We love to read, too; especially in Cree! Thank you Westgrove School for inviting us to come and read Monique Grey Smith and Julie Flett’s My Heart Fills with Happiness in English and...
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The talk of love is getting pretty serious around here (though we’re keeping it G-rated), with four new talking hearts from Simon Bird. Thanks to Solomon Ratt for supplying audio. These are correct...
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Dawn Marie Marchand at Câhcacêp Art & Tea House, Edmonton
Only three days left to view Dawn Marie Marchand’s solo exhibition at the Câhcacep Gallery Café, owned and operated in Edmonton by the remarkable Jerry and Jo-Ann Saddleback. câhcacêp means “a little...
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Cultural Survival: Art Napoleon (northern y-dialect)
Thanks, Art Napoleon, for permission to share this gentle prayer song in Northern Cree (northern y-dialect) to remind us that cultural survival is what it’s all about in these times of turmoil....
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Animal Song: Art Napoleon (Northern y-dialect)
In honour of International Mother Tongue Day, Art Napoleon shared this very sweet song that he wrote in Northern y-dialect. (I suspect he may have written it for his own little Niska). As Art says:...
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Atikamekw Vocabulary Tools (in French): Alloprof.qc.ca
Image credit: Alloprof.qc.ca Have you ever wondered about the r-dialect of Cree? Atikamekw is one of the Cree dialects spoken in southwest Quebec in the communities of Obidjewan, Manawan and...
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Joi T Arcand, 2019: Àbadanoke | Continuous Fire | Feu continue
Ramp leading to Scotiabank Great Hall of the National Gallery of Canada, showing Joi T. Arcand, ᐆᑌᓃᑳᓅᕁ (ōtē nīkānōhk), 2019, vinyl installation (collection of the artist, © Joi T. Arcand, photo: NGC)...
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In Solidarity (Solomon Ratt th-dialect)
http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/WeStand.mp3 niwîcikâpawîstawâwak askiy mîna nipiy onâtamâkîwak.* ᓂᐑᒋᑳᐸᐑᐢᑕᐚᐘᐠ ᐊᐢᑭᕀ ᒦᓇ ᓂᐱᕀ ᐅᓈᑕᒫᑮᐘᐠ I stand with earth and water protectors. For...
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On OUR Land (Solomon Ratt, y-dialect)
http://creeliteracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/OurLand.m4a êkâwiya nikoskâcihinân; nitaskînâhk ôma nitayânân. ᐁᑳᐏᔭ ᓂᑯᐢᑳᒋᐦᐃᓈᐣ; ᓂᑕᐢᑮᓈᕽ ᐆᒪ ᓂᑕᔮᓈᐣ᙮ Don’t disturb us; we are on OUR land. In solidarity...
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Sweetgrass: Neil Redcrow (y-dialect)
Thanks to Neil Redcrow for reminding us of the role of sweetgrass in prayer: a thought worth remembering every day, especially in Cree.
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